Industrial engineering, operations research, and systems engineering are fields of study intended for individuals who are interested in analyzing and formulating abstract models of complex systems with the intention of improving system performance. Unlike traditional disciplines in engineering and the mathematical sciences, the fields address the role of the human decision-maker as key contributor to the inherent complexity of systems and primary benefactor of the analyses.

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Placement

Our students are highly sought after and tend to be split evenly between those seeking university positions and those pursuing employment in non-academic settings.

Graduates of our Ph.D. programs take academic positions at top engineering and business schools where they continue to build impactful research and teaching careers, and also sometimes choose to work in smaller departments, including those focused on computing and math, with a teaching-focused mission. You can find our Ph.D. graduates at virtually every industrial engineering or operations program in the U.S. and many others around the world.

Our students also choose to work at some of the best and most progressive companies that deploy industrial engineering, statistics, analytics, or operations research methodologies in their organization. Ph.D. graduates have also risen to lead those groups as well as to go on and lead the organizations. Typical non-academic positions include those at research labs, R&D groups in corporations, software development firms, and the like. Typical titles include: operations research analyst, consultant, staff mathematician, and statistician.

A sample of companies that have attracted our Ph.D. graduates include:

Amazon

BHP Billiton

UPS

McKinsey

Samsung

ExxonMobil

Logility

i2

Norfolk Southern

Battelle

SAS

Axioma

Descartes Associates

GE Global Research

JP Morgan Chase

Gurobi

BP Energy

Suntrust Bank

Delta Technologies

IBM

Siemens

Oracle

Intel

Capital One

NASA

United Airlines

BNSF

For those seeking academic positions, the School’s record has been strong. The following is a partial list of institutions where recent graduates have taken positions: